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This cross sectional study was carried out to compare the nutritional status of public primary school children in an upland and a riverine area of Ojo Local Government Area of Lagos State, Nigeria. A multistage sampling method was used to select a total of 240 children, 120 from each of the two areas. The study population for each area had an equal sex distribution (60 boys and 60 girls). Dietary, anthropometric, clinical and laboratory methods were employed. Using the National Centre for...
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This comparative study was carried out to assess the nutritional status of preschool children in the Southern part of Nigeria (Lagos) and Jos, Plateau State in the Northern part of Nigeria. A total of 393 nursery school children aged 24-77 months in 5 schools (3 in Jos, 2 in Lagos) were randomly selected by multistage sampling. Anthropometric data (height, weight and age) were taken from the subjects and dietary information, weaning and breastfeeding history and general socio economic data...
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This article explores the meaning and place of traditional forms of sex education within the cultural and historical context of the Shinyanga Region of west central Tanzania. Although structured puberty initiation rituals may have been an important source of information about sexuality and reproduction for Tanzanian adolescents in the past, such rituals were not common to all Tanzanian settings. The Shinyanga Region is a case in point. Drawing upon the anthropological and sociological...
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Sport managers and marketers strategically include individuals with specific characteristics as spokespersons in their persuasive communications (i.e., advertisements, promotional messages, development campaigns, and announcements) to appeal to and influence the attitudes and behaviors of their intended audience. This study was designed to examine African-American students’ responses to race (when moderated by the students' ethnic identification) as a salient characteristic of the person...
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This article reports on a study of the schooling careers of a recent cohort of African Americans that found that 44 percent of the women and 34 percent of the men reentered school at least once. There were few differences in educational credentials at age 27 between those who attained their education in one spell or two spells of enrollment, although more than two school reentries were not associated with high levels of educational credentials. Using recent models of educational decision...
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This volume focuses on gender and education in sub-Saharan Africa, considering in particular the impact formal and non-formal education have had on African women. A variety of country studies illustrate theoretical debates and the authors provide historical and cultural context.
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An examination of reported cases of child abuse in Nigerian schools was carried out against the backdrop of the legal framework for the protection of pupils. The objective was to highlight the deficiency in Nigerian law on child protection in the light of UN Conventions which Nigeria has ratified.
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Shortly after South African College, the predecessor of today's University of Cape Town, opened its doors in 1829 faculty members found that they had a problem. In one meeting of the Faculty Senate alone, four students were brought up on charges that one had been ‘fighting and noisy’, another ‘fighting – kicking open the door of the Messenger's Room’, another ‘writing on the Professor's desk with chalk’ the words ‘Ziervogel is a vagabond’ as well as ‘threatening the messenger with his fist’,...
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Through an examination of the concept of rights in emergent policy in South Africa, this article illustrates some of the ways in which philosophy can serve democratic policy in its pursuit of the public good. We argue that while the South African Schools Act establishes some of the institutional conditions for a rights-based educational system, inadequacies in the treatment of gender and rights in the new national curriculum threaten to undermine the vision of the public good in South...
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This study examines the association between a household's degree of vulnerability to food crisis and the incidence of deaths using primary survey data carried out to look at the demographic consequences of drought and famine in the drought-prone areas of northern Ethiopia. Retrospective data on the occurrences of deaths within a household were collected for the period 1984 to 1994. Consistent with previous studies, the findings confirm that mortality was clustered among the age groups 1-4...
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The need to more effectively teach and meet the needs of culturally, racially, and linguistically diverse students occupies a great deal of attention in the field of education. In gifted education, much of the discussion centers on the underrepresentation of diverse students in programs and services for gifted students, with a growing body of work focusing on issues of underachievement among these students. In this article, we contend that one solution to these two issues is for schools to...
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The challenges to sustain and enhance the quality of teaching and learning facing academic staff in South African universities are discussed against the background of the latest quality assurance policy developments at the national level. In addition, eight contextual factors that need to be taken into account are reviewed. Three strategies are proposed to facilitate the adoption of quality assurance measures by academics functioning in challenging contexts.
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Policy-makers have placed great faith in education as a means of transforming and developing South African society. Recent policy documents specify occupational, professional and academic roles and competences for teachers. These documents require a significant shift to “extended” professionalism. Do these roles and competences resonate with current classroom realities and practices? This question was addressed by mapping the practices of “effective” teachers onto research schedules based on...